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Wan Guanghua is Principal Economist at the Asian Development Bank. Formerly Project Director at UNU-WIDER, he has taught and researched in development economics an applied econometrics at a range of universities including the University of New England and the University of Sydney and he is an honorary professor at several leading universities in China. He is particularly noted for pioneering work in the development of regression-based decomposition techniques for inequality and poverty accounting. He has many academic papers published in peer reviewed journals.
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Globalization and the Labor Share in National Income
Globalization is a driving force behind income inequality.
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Exploring the Trade–Urbanization Nexus in Developing Economies: Evidence and Implications
Trade in cereals is critical to urban development.
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Measuring the Impact of Vulnerability on the Number of Poor: A New Methodology with Empirical Illustrations
When vulnerability is taken into account, the extent of poverty significantly increases.
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Structural Change and Income Distribution: Accounting for Regional Inequality in the People’s Republic of China and Its Changes during 1952–2012
Structural change has profound effects on inequality and important policy implications for developing different economic sectors.
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The Fiscal Risk of Local Government Revenue in the People’s Republic of China
The PRC’s fiscal transfers to local governments promote local investment and financing of infrastructure projects.
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Who Gains More from Which Infrastructure in Rural People’s Republic of China?
This paper will demonstrate the deficiency of conventional approaches to modelling inequality; extend the Mincer earnings function so that both growth and distributive effects of infrastructure can be evaluated.
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Income Polarization in the People’s Republic of China: Trends and Changes
This paper estimates income polarization in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) from 1978 to 2010 and decomposes the estimated polarization by population subgroup.
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Determinants of Urbanization
Taking advantage of the latest UN World Urbanization Prospects, this paper uses an instrumental variables approach to identify and analyze key urbanization determinants.
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A ZEN Approach to Post-2015: Addressing the Range of Perspectives across Asia and the Pacific
The paper aims to present the key challenges being faced by the Asia and Pacific region as a number of its developing economies graduate from a low-income status to middle-income status.
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Between-Country Disparities in MDGs: The Asia and Pacific Region
This paper represents an early attempt to study cross-country disparities in 25 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), with a special emphasis on health-related MDGs.